libopensync and plugins now prefer cmake for building. Cmake, in short, reads "CMakeLists.txt" files, and will create compile instructions suitable for your platform. This plugin works with Trolltech's Qt-libraries, and hence may require the QTDIR environment variable to be set properly to the path where Qt4 is installed at your site. mkdir build cd build env QTDIR=/opt/qt4 cmake .. make make install This will build and install this software in a unix-like environment where "make" is available.